By Ivan R. Mugisha
Rwanda has issued seven new indictments for genocide fugitives in 2020 as it endeavours to push governments across the world to arrest suspects on their soil.
The list of genocide suspects has now grown to 1,145, and is expected to grow year-on-year as investigations discover more suspects in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
Tracing the fugitives has been “extremely difficult” because many of them have changed names or faked their death, prosecutors say.
“Some of the fugitives have paid for death announcements to be read on TV and radio so that their host countries stop pursuing them. Others have concealed their identity and live quiet and hidden lives,” Faustin Nkusi, Spokesperson of Rwanda Prosecution Authority, told The EastAfrican.
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